Heart Seed Ruin Log

[goatsongs]

[You suddenly find yourself in the entrance to a library. Well, it should be an entrance - if you turn around, there isn’t a door behind you, but there’s a desk that says ‘RETURNS’ and a desk that says ‘HELP’, both with containers full of pens on them. There’s also rows and rows of bookcases all stuffed full of books.

Naturally, both the returns desk and the help desk are staffed: the returns desk by a bright-looking young boy, and the help desk by a serious-looking man.

Beyond the shelves of books, there’s a steel door to the left, as well as a wooden door to the right.]

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GARDEN

[goatsongs]

[You exit the library and enter a garden, or someone’s idea of a garden. It’s almost entirely filled with cacti, but there’s more than enough space for you to walk through without pricking yourself. There’s also a bucket of water, presumably for watering said cacti.

On the other end of the garden, there’s another wall of the library, and a piece of paper stuck to the wall.]

[chazukefang]

[Atsushi frowns as he looks around the garden. There are so many cacti around here even some water for them, though he's not getting pricked at all. He continues to walk through the garden, until he ends up at the other wall of the library. He looks at the piece of paper and takes it off the wall.]

[goatsongs]

[In Chuuya's handwriting, the paper says, 'What to plant next?']

[chazukefang]

[Atsushi reads it as he looks around. What to plant next? Maybe there's some seeds or something nearby. He walks around to try and find them.]

[goatsongs]

[There don't seem to be any seeds here, but he might notice that the cacti bend away from him if he gets too close.]

[chazukefang]

[Wait, they are bending away from him. Atsushi tries to get close to the cacti again when it leans back again. Wait, maybe using the water can help. He grabs the can and gets close to water them to see what will happen next.]

[goatsongs]

[When they're watered, two of the cacti bend away from each other instead of away from Atsushi, revealing a pen lying on the ground between them.

Someone dropped a pen in a garden, how rude.]

[chazukefang]

[Hmm, well, Chuuya is a poet the pen does make sense. Atsushi walks over to pick it up as he looks at it.

Now that he has the pen where is he supposed to go?]

[goatsongs]

[Are you still holding the paper you took from the wall, Atsushi?]

[tabakoto]

[ Here we are, in the garden. It seems very prickly, doesn't it? It seems risky if one is unsteady on ones feet.

And because he's more interested in the note than watering plants, he heads to the other wall so he can have a look at it. ]

[goatsongs]

[In Chuuya's handwriting, the paper says, 'What to plant next?']

[tabakoto]

What to plant? I don’t really know anything about plants..

[ But you need seeds for that, right? Are there any here? He looks around, to see if he can spot anything that might look anything like it. ]

[goatsongs]

[Now that Akutagawa looks, he can find a few packets of seeds scattered near the bucket of water. Most of them are for different kinds of cacti, but one of them says that it's for roses.]

[sunflowering]

[ . . . A desert garden, is it? The climate she has been raised in is much too cold for cacti to grow, so this is her first time seeing any in person. She almost walks past the bucket of water, but pauses. If it's here at all, it must have some kind of meaning, right?

Or maybe she's over thinking things. Either way, she picks up the bucket of water and proceeds to water the plants.]

[goatsongs]

[The cacti look a little more healthy when they're watered, and bend to point towards the wall with the paper.]

[sunflowering]

[ A-At least they don't seem so hostile, like some of the plants she has encountered prior to her arrival here within his heart. But if this isn't a signal, she doesn't know what is. Quietly she glances in their direction until she spots the little piece of paper.

Approaching, she reaches out to pluck the paper from the wall.]

[goatsongs]

[In Chuuya's handwriting, the paper says, 'What to plant next?']

[sunflowering]

[What to plant next...? She glances around. Is there something she should plant? Or is there something he already has in the works?]

[goatsongs]

[Where the water bucket was, there are some packets of seeds. Most of them are for various types of cacti, but one or two of them are for roses.]

[sunflowering]

[ . . . Ah. She used the water to water the cacti. But no matter, she can conger water on her own.

At least she can in the real world. She wonders if she still can here? She might as well try. Moving forward, she grabs a small packet of seeds and lifts her hand up to see if she's still capable of drawing moisture from the air, in order to plant the seeds and water them.]

[goatsongs]

[She thinks she should be able to do it, so she can do it.

When the seeds are planted - cacti, roses, or both - a door appears on the wall where the paper used to be.]

[sunflowering]

[Both...! She feels satisfied after planting them, before she blinks when she notices another door has appeared.

Ah-- so this opened another path? Moving forward, her hand falls upon that door then, and she gently tries to open it.]

[goatsongs]

[The door opens up into a bedroom.]